While she may have been lurking out of sight for centuries, the witch re-entered Western cultural consciousness in the wake of the 2016 Trump campaign and election. Perhaps she’s a political witch, a W.I.T.C.H., but then doesn’t she also seem to really believe in magic? Who, then, is she? Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, you turn to literary criticism to find out. This witch hates the Tories and Trump, talks about the apocalyptic cruelty of the neoliberal agenda. This witch dresses like an architect and goes to therapy. But she’s not really that kind of witch, you notice. You remember her, you think, from the fancy-dress shop in your childhood town, the one that also had a line in crystals and shaky water colours of the Fae Folk. You’ve seen her at events, carrying a tote bag which seems to claim that someone once tried and failed to burn her Mum.
She’s been turning up to things since at least 2016.
The witch seems to be in her mid-to-late-twenties, but she calls herself an ageless daughter of Hecate, at once maiden, mother and crone. Or maybe you saw her at a poetry reading, casting a spell.
Or online, sharing details of an independent candle boutique with reasonable shipping. Maybe you saw her at a protest, hexing local government. By now, you will have noticed, at least, the brazen way a new sort of witch occupies public space.
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"Rappers I monkey flip em with the funky rhythm I be kicking/Musician, inflicting composition/of pain I'm like Scarface sniffing cocaine/Holding a M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now/Bullet holes left in my peepholes/I'm suited up in street clothes/Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes/Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay/I keep some E&J, sitting bent up in the stairway/Or either on the corner betting Grants with the celo champs/Laughing at baseheads, tryin' to sell some broken amps/G-Packs get off quick, forever n***** talk s***/Reminiscing about the last time the Task Force flipped/N***** be running through the block shootin'/Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston/Once they caught us off-guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and/I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin/Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up," the Mac spit/Lead was hitting n*****, one ran, I made him back flip/Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look/Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "yo, my s*** is stuck"/Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger/Finally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamber/So now I'm jetting to the building lobby/And it was full of children probably couldn't see as high as I be/(So what you saying?) It's like the game ain't the same/Got younger n***** pulling the triggers, bringing fame to their name/And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners/In broad daylight, stickup kids: they run up on us/4-5's and gauges, Macs, in fact/Same n***** will catch a back-to-back, snatching your cracks in black/There was a snitch on the block getting n****s knocked/So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop/I know this crackhead who said she's got to smoke nice rock/And if it's good, she'll bring you customers in measuring pots/But yo, you gotta slide on a vacation, inside information/Keeps large n***** erasin' and their wives basin'/It drops deep as it does in my breath/I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death/Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined/I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind.Are you a witch? Do you consort with witches? Have you sought a witch’s guidance (romantic, financial, professional or otherwise)? Does it please you to tup with the devil, kill the cows and blight the harvest with a curse? Do you wear hats? Have you installed a tarot app on your phone? Have you cracked an egg, found its yolk doubled and laced with blood, and proceeded to make an omelette anyway? Do you have a cat? Do you want to have a cat? Do you cast spells? Do you like poetry? Do you agree that spells are poems? Do you agree that poems are spells?